You are right. South African is formed through the conflicts of a lot of different groups. It started with the Khoi and Dutch (later called Afrikaner), then the Xhosa and Afrikaner which became the English and the Xhosa conflict when the Afrikaner left the eastern border with the Groot Trek. Then the Afrikaner encounter the Zulu which again became the English and Zulu conflict when the Afrikaner left for the north and settled in the Transvaal. After discovering gold in the Afrikaner control Transvaal, it became an Afrikaner and English conflict with the Boer War. During the 1900's the conflict develop between white and non-white with Apartheid. During this period more groups entered South Africa. There are the descended from the Malaysian slaves which the Dutch brought to the Cape. Today they form the largest Muslim community in South Africa and call themselves the Cape Malay. There are also the descendants of the Indians which the English used to work in the sugar field. The group of Chinese was sent back in the early 1900 and therefore the Chinese community stayed small. With democracy, we tried to remove these lines of conflict, but history and the emotions around it are tough to leave behind.
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